Head of Data

Headways mission is a big one to build a new mental health care system everyone can access. Weve built technology that helps people find great therapists with the first softwareenabled national network of providers accepting insurance.

1 in 4 people in the US have a treatable mental health condition but the majority of providers dont accept insurance making therapy too expensive for most people. Headway is building a new mental healthcare system that everyone can access by making it easy for therapists to accept insurance and scale their practice.

Headway was founded in 2019. Since then weve grown into a diverse national network of over 45000 mental healthcare providers across all 50 states who run their practice on our software and have served over 1 million patients. Were a Series D company with over $325m in funding from a16z (Andreessen Horowitz) Accel GV (formerly Google Ventures) Spark Capital Thrive Capital Forerunner Ventures and Health Care Service Corporation.

We want your time here to be the most meaningful experience of your career. Join us and help change mental healthcare for the better.

About the role:

Building a new mental healthcare system at Headway is only possible because of the insights and leverage that data can provide. Over the past year weve made big strides in developing a data infrastructure that is the basis of all our insights. Now it is time to leverage this environment and build a worldclass Analytics team that can drive insights analyses reporting tracking and operate as the initiator and coach for everyone in using analytical tools.

The Head of Data will ensure that Headway is a true datafirst company as we execute our mission of making mental healthcare more accessible and affordable across the United States. Reporting to Headways CTO you will be the builder and leader of a worldclass Data Analytics Team and the main driver of insights as we rapidly scale. You will be responsible for partnering with business leads and ensuring teams are making datadriven decisions and tracking KPIs. Youll lead the central coordinating hub for analytics whether done by your team or decentralized working closely with the Data Engineering teams who are building the data infrastructure the Strategic Finance team who are your collaborators from a finance perspective and functional leaders at Headway whose success you will enable as you strengthen the analytics posture at Headway.

Headway is growing at an unprecedented speed which provides a unique opportunity for an action growth and impactoriented leader to build a worldclass team and culture of data excellence.

You will:

• Hire inspire and manage a growing team of data analysts
• Partner with the Engineering Infrastructure Product Operations Finance and Business functions closely to define the direction of the data team and to drive results
• Be responsible for the tracking and communicating of KPIs both through central reporting and liberalization of the data
• Be a key decision maker on projects involving data within the company
• Be a key player in insuring the successful execution of the various projects involving data
• Be a critical thinker able to quickly grasp metrics numbers financial information and converse with the various stakeholders in a thoughtful manner

You will love this role if you have:

• 12 years of experience in data leadership with proven experience building high functioning data engineering data platform data science data and product analytics teams in a fastpaced environment
• Understanding of various technology stacks and be native in different tools and languages
• Strong at simplifying data be able to explain complex data stories to different stakeholders
• You are empathetic: you are eager to see the world from your users perspective
• Youre energized by ambiguity & a selfstarter: you love to drive the direction of ambiguous projects
• You are motivated by our mission. We are working to solve the biggest problems in mental health care today: access and affordability.

We believe a teams strength is in its people and we cannot achieve this mission without a team that reflects the diversity of this problem across race ethnicity gender sexuality age national origin religion family status disability military status and experience.

Headway is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment Headway will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process to perform essential job functions and/or receive other benefits and privileges of employment please inform the recruiter when they contact you to schedule your interview.

Headway employees work remotely across the US with the option to work from offices in New York City San Francisco and Seattle. Headway participates in EVerify. To learn more clickhere.